I'd love to see a list of what you consider your favorite works or authors in the mundane SF genre or that you might consider good examples of "diamond hard non-agitprop" SF.
I've really enjoyed (and reread) your novels and I'm a longtime fan of the works of Kim Stanley Robinson. Even though James A. Corey only sort of qualifies as "mundane SF" given the super alien tech, I really enjoyed the parts of his books where stellar orbits, transit times and such are treated as important parts of the plot.
I'm not cstross, but you could check out Greg Egan. He's got a number of stories set in universes that don't even have the same number of dimensions as ours (4 spatial dimensions, zero time dimensions, or 2 spatial dimensions, 2 time dimensions), where this deeply matters and directly impacts the plots, and all the mathematics is deeply worked out for these sorts of universes and also impacts the plot. See, for instance, https://www.gregegan.net/DICHRONAUTS/DICHRONAUTS.html , and all the pages it links to. And that's just an example, there are some "lighter weight" ones that under normal circumstances would still be considered fairly "heavy", just not as heavy as literally working out how General Relativity works in different numbers of dimensions for the story.
His politics I would estimate as reasonably similar to the HN gestalt.
Thanks, I always appreciate having authors recommended.
I read all kinds of SF regardless of politics and scientific accuracy. I often find authors whose politics I don't agree with give me the most insight into other ways of seeing and understanding the world.
I just love the idea of orbital mechanics, coriolis effects and zero g environments as plot points. I also wish there were SF video games that utilized a mundane SF solar system as a setting.
I read widely without much regard for politics (as long as the story is not simply a disguised political polemic, which I've come to find boring even if I nominally agree with it), but I was just trying to answer the question as asked. Only perhaps a couple of his stories start to get into polemic territory, and even that, let me emphasize, "start"; none of them that I've read are outright political pamphlets. Mostly they're great sci-fi.
I've really enjoyed (and reread) your novels and I'm a longtime fan of the works of Kim Stanley Robinson. Even though James A. Corey only sort of qualifies as "mundane SF" given the super alien tech, I really enjoyed the parts of his books where stellar orbits, transit times and such are treated as important parts of the plot.